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Recently I have received this post at my feed , would live to know if googlers was having an idea earlier about this and google's approach to experiment different products without actually realisin...

Recently I have received this post at my feed , would live to know if googlers was having an idea earlier about this and google's approach to experiment different products without actually realising for product market fit and scalability

Google, tough times and uncertainty

Google, tough times and uncertainty- Grapevine

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Atleast not in the form it is now. Found a rare good post on LinkedIn via Twitter which lists the reason why i think so. Also, I was reading psychology of money and one of the chapters discussed how GE used to be the most valued company in 2000s and how within 20 years, everything went to manhole.

Google is seriously going through a leadership crisis. I hate Pichai from the gut. We Indians like him coz he's brown munda, but I have never seen such narrow minded CEO since Balmer.

Hot Take: Google will not exist in next 30 years

Many other xooglers raised these leadership issues earlier. 
 Meanwhile, tier2/3 kids are burning midnight oil to land up in Google to start YT channel

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High likelihood that google india will see a large layoff this week. It could be as soon as today.

This is the unfortunate week for Google India employees :(

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Frankly, the new now is flooded with products from Microsoft and layoffs from Google. Why is Google not able to innovate? What is that the Google lacking??

Is this the end of Google???

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Ex Google Employee aggressively complains about company’s dying culture

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https://www-livemint-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.livemint.com/companies/news/google-to-let-go-of-30-000-employees-due-to-new-ai-innovation-heres-what-report-suggests/amp-11703383333475.html

Google preparing for another round of layoffs?

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Now G-Suite users will be able to share a similar page to schedule calls, which was Calendly’s main use case. 

It’s so sad to see that one small feature addition from a big organization can just kill a small company in a short amount of time.

Google dropped a scheduling feature that kills Calendly

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A concrete test is if you can access Memegen, you haven't been impacted at the moment. I'll make sure to keep this post up to date with any findings we may have.

Google Layoffs

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Google layoffs 12,000 mail from Sundar

https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/being-treated-like-school-children-google-employees-on-stricter-work-from-home-policy/amp-11686719779521.html

Is this true? googler’s here?

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In Google Bangalore office, my team has few WITCH employees on contractual basis having salaries in range of 5-6 lakhs with work experience of 2-4 years. 

While permanent Google employees are not allowed to use o1 models on official laptop, WITCH employees have no such constraints. 

In last 3-4 days, WITCH employees are outperforming few permanent Google employees (having salaries in range of 60 lakhs to 1 crores) of my team.

This has convinced me that once Orion, Gemini 2 (embedded with Alpha zero, Alpha proof technique) etc. is released within year end, most dedicated WITCH employees (having salary of 5 lakh rs. ) can contribute in software development more than FAANG employees not using these AI tools.

I witnessed smth in Google which convinced me that WITCH companies can solve the problem of 'perennial problem of unemployable graduate'.

ok!! jab aayega tab dekh lenge, why are you spamming google ?

Senior Software Engineer

Can anybody working at Google India, throw some light on what’s happening with Hiring. Seeing some posts related to layoff, people interviewing, people getting ghosted by recruiters after interviews. I’ve seen few people waiting for their interview feedback for few weeks after completing their all interview rounds. Is google going to stop hiring or there are too many candidates applying? Any insights would be helpful. Thanks

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Last night many people got notified; 10th June is the LWD in India ! Did you got impacted? 

This layoff is presented what happened 2.5 months back in MTV!

Layoff hitting Google BLR/HYD/PUN/GGN

Trying to see companies that people here have had the dream to join, but didn’t ultimately work out. Have you now grown over it?

Which company were you obsessed with joining, but never could?

For me it was McKinsey 
 It was the best job out of college, status wise. 
  
 Did well in college and made it to the final shortlist. Was obsessed with it, read books and all about The Firm. 
  
 Then the interviews happened, couldn’t convert. Was a downer.  
  
 But 5 years later, doesn’t matter much. I feel life taught me better things. And my fascination of consulting jobs has changed drastically since :p

Corporate Strategist

A paradise for rest and vest people on the right team
- Do under 40 hours and get normal rating
- System is self healing, you can break something and don’t care
- Deadlines are a joke
- No responsibility
- Can ignore pings and care about anything

A nightmare for career growing mindset people
- Tech island
- Hard work are all abstracted away
- Promo is too fucking complicated
- Overhired and slow growth equals to slow promo
- Politics growing everyday. Basically hunger game to fight for impact and projects

Google is not the same anymore, things are changing rapidly & soon it will be worse.

Google is..

Xoogler here. I echo this so much, and it's what made me leave (was in a tech role as well) 

Google really was my dream company through life, but 2-3 months in, things really became clear (luckily I was in a startup before Google, and that was crucial to understand what was wrong there). 

- You can't really do something great, it's just mundane things on repeat 
- After the first 6-7 months on the role, you're usually not learning, because of point 1
- People are amazing, but they're not as driven as you'd expect 
- Growth is stunted 
- Promotion is the main thing on everyone's agenda (without realizing there may be better work out there) 

Ultimately, I feel it's an amazing culture and company but people have become too comfortable to realize the flaws :(

Google has today announced layoff in India as part of their global layoffs

Google India layoff

Google is sick 🤢 !! 700 million to fire people.

Product Designer

This has become a common discussion topic in my friend circle when we think about switching jobs. Earlier Google used to be number one choice for many, but now due to layoffs and the hear-say about toxic work culture in google cloud things are changing and people are preferring other companies. Is it the same for you as well ? has your perception of Google changing too? Is google loosing both the cloud and AI battle? 
@google

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